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Which Dolphin Players Have Trade Value This Offseason?

<O> said:
The big mistake the Dolphins made in this area was in thinking Suh would have the effect on opposing passing games necessary to supplement Tannehill's typical level of play and make the team a Super Bowl contender.

They're paying both players as though they'd give the team the passer rating differential necessary to accomplish that, whereas Suh is obviously having no such effect on opposing passing games. The team's pass defense is horrendous despite Suh's presence, and the team is going nowhere with a pass defense this poor.

Now they're stuck in a situation in which both players are (or will be) on the wrong side of 30 and wouldn't fetch as much in trade as they would have earlier in their careers. Also at issue is the fact that trading Suh would result in $22M in dead cap money, with only a $3.9M cap savings in 2018.

That said, however, with the team's being a ways off from contending, it would make sense to trade Suh for even something as meager as a 4th- or 5th-round pick. Essentially you'd be trading Suh for something meager, in exchange for the other team's willingness to take on his salary.

The alternative is that you wait another year, Suh is a year older, and teams are unwilling perhaps to part with anything for him, knowing the Dolphins can then cut him and save $15M against the cap.

In other words, this may be the last year anything at all can be gotten for Suh in trade. If his career longevity doesn't fit this team's view of its longer-term building process, it's time to trade him now, while something can still be garnered in return.

I strongly doubt the team can improve enough in just the 2017/2018 offseason to warrant viewing Suh as an integral piece of a Super Bowl push. It's time to realize he just doesn't fit anymore.
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I think what you're saying is that BAD decisions lead to bad results and poor options...
 
John813 said:
R. Jones has a 11.5 million cap hit next year.

If traded before June 1st, his dead cap for 18 is over 17 million.

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/miami-dolphins

We really can't move guys we recently re-signed unless you want a huge dead cap hit from them. Then you still need to go out and pay their replacement.

This season we had over 20 million in dead money.
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If traded (Jones that is) there is no cap hit. His contract goes with in a trade scenario. Now if we were to cut/release him, now your talking dead $ etc.
 
The irony is that the few with marketable trade value are the only ones we probably need to retain. Better to trade Tannenbum and Grier for a beer bong.
 
Tannehill's trade value is limited by the ACL injury. And honestly, you'd be stupid to trade him unless you were also very concerned about the ACL injury.

There's nobody on this team who has any trade value except for Devante Parker, and even that is going to be much less than what you paid for him.
 
dnr3131 said:
If traded (Jones that is) there is no cap hit. His contract goes with in a trade scenario. Now if we were to cut/release him, now your talking dead $ etc.
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OTC shows a dead cap hit of 7 million if traded in the offseason.
Now of course OTC may not have all the fine details of his contract into their calculator.
 
if you gave me a 2nd rounder for Kenny stills I'd trade him

everything else you are gonna sell low on
 
Kingdom Come said:
It doesn't work that way. If Landry and his agent are OK with the team willing to trade for him, they simply negotiate a new long term deal before the trade is officially established.

An example would be: The 49ers are desperate for WR help so they express interest in Landry and are willing to give him his 11 mil a year deal loaded with guaranteed money. Dolphins trade him for two 3rd round picks as a tagged player, but the 49ers rescind the tag and the new deal begins.

Dolphins are elated to get the picks because they really didn't have the cap room to keep Landry on the payroll.
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I've never seen anything like that go down... any examples in history? recent history?
 
All the sudden Mitchell has some trade value. Young, cheap, and starting to figure it out!!! That equates value, value on the rise!
 
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